Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (v. t.) To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal. 2. (v. t.) To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider. 3. (v. t.) To know or learn with certainty. 4. (v. t.) To anticipate; esp., to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear. 5. (v. i.) To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose. 6. (v. i.) To be apprehensive; to fear. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia APPREHEND ap-re-hend': Occurs in the New Testament in two meanings: "to arrest" (piazo; Acts 12:4 2 Corinthians 11:32 the Revised Version (British and American), "take"); and "to seize," "grasp," "take into one's possession," "attain," "inquire eagerly" (katalambano, the American Standard Revised Version "laid hold on," "laid fast hold of," Philippians 3:12, 13 Ephesians 3:18). In John 1:5, "The darkness apprehended it not," the Revised Version, margin gives "overcame not." See COMPREHEND.

Multi-Version Concordance Apprehend (7 Occurrences) Matthew 15:17 Do ye not yet apprehend, that everything that enters into the mouth finds its way into the belly, and is cast forth into the draught? (DBY) Matthew 26:55 Then said Jesus to the crowds, "Have you come out as if to fight with a robber, with swords and bludgeons to apprehend me? Day after day I have been sitting teaching in the Temple, and you did not arrest me. (WEY) John 7:32 The Pharisees heard the people thus expressing their various doubts about Him, and the High Priests and the Pharisees sent some officers to apprehend Him. (WEY) 2 Corinthians 11:32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: (KJV WEY WBS) Ephesians 3:18 may be strong to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, (ASV DBY) Philippians 3:12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. (KJV WBS) Hebrews 11:3 By faith we apprehend that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that that which is seen should not take its origin from things which appear. (DBY)